Bill Gates failed to install Windows 8.1

I stumbled upon this article at The New Yorker whilst trying to help support an old classmate trying to persuade her son over the fallacy of mathematical economics today.

I had spent most of the afternoon of Vesak Day working on what else but Microsoft products. I had to cleaned out one of our Notebook PC and restore the machine to factory condition and start afresh. Took a whole damn day.

Therefore I am happy to read that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates failed to upgrade from Win 7 to Wiin 8.1 after one whole day of working on it. Why didn't he get an engineer to do that for him? Because he would jeopardize his geek cred eh.

Of course the man wouldn't blame himself. After all he was the preeminent geek.

Welcome to the real world where so many of us have our frustration with Microsoft apps.